Cat in the Hat returns to Asheboro library for Dr. Seuss birthday party

Celebrate Dr. Seuss’s birthday with a party at 4 p.m. Friday, March 1, at the Asheboro Public Library. It’s free, and children of all ages are invited.

There will be stories, games, other activities and prizes – and attendees can expect a visit again this year from the Cat in the Hat. Come dressed as your favorite Dr. Seuss character, if you like.

Refreshments will be served. The party is sponsored by the Friends of the Library.

Call 318-6804 for further information. The library is located at 201 Worth Street in Asheboro.

Asheboro library to host ‘Pottery Slam’ for teens

The Asheboro Public Library TeenZone’s first annual Pottery Slam will take place from noon-2 p.m. Saturday, February 16 in the library’s meeting room.

Join local potters Betsy Browne, Adam Wiley and Joseph Sand and learn to make pottery.

The potters are bringing their wheels and will give demonstrations and hands-on lessons so participants can create their own pots. Final pieces can be taken for firing and returned to the maker.

The program, sponsored by the Friends of the Library,  is free and all teens are invited.

Library to screen Greensboro sit-in documentary

In observance of Black History Month, the Asheboro Public Library will show the film February One: The Story of The Greensboro Four at 7 p.m. Tuesday, February 12.

Through the use of first-hand accounts, rare archival footage, photo stills and re-enactments, the documentary recounts the story of four young men whose sit-in demonstrations would have a profound impact on the Civil Rights movement. A discussion will follow.

The screening is free and the public is invited.  Call 318-6808 for details.  

Library invites kids to get creative with Valentine’s cards

Kids from preschool-age to teens are invited to make creative Valentine’s Day cards at 4 p.m. Tuesday, February 12, at the Asheboro library.

Children and teens can get creative with paper, markers, glitter and more! You supply the labor and creativity, and the library will provide all the supplies needed and instruction on how to make a variety of cards, and to decorate gift bags.

The program is sponsored by the Friends of the Library and is free.  Children under the age of 10 must be accompanied by an adult. For more information call 318-6804.

Celebrated novelist Wiley Cash to speak at Asheboro library

Meet Wiley Cash, author of the acclaimed novel A Land More Kind Than Home, at 1 p.m. Monday, February 11, at the Asheboro Public Library

Cash’s appearance is sponsored by the Friends of the Library, the Sorosis Book Club and the Thursday Study Club. It’s free and the public is invited.

             

A literary thriller set in the mountains of Madison County, N.C., A Land More Kind Than Home has received all sorts of accolades since its publication in May 2012. It’s a New York Times Best Seller and Notable Book of 2012, and a Library Journal Best Book of 2012.

It was named among Best Fiction of 2012 by Kirkus Reviews  and Books-a-Million;  as the Debut of 2012 by the UK Crime Writers Association; as a Discover Great New Writers selection by Barnes and Noble; and as a Southern Bookseller’s Alliance Pick.

Cash, a North Carolina native, currently lives with his wife in West Virginia. He holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, where he studied fiction writing under Ernest J. Gaines and spent five years missing the mountains of North Carolina — a place Gaines encouraged him to write about.

Cash realized that in writing about home, he could recreate that place no matter where he lived.

In A Land More Kind Than Home, Jess Hall is a curious, adventurous boy growing up in a place where people tend to protect their own and keep old secrets buried. But when Jess’s autistic, mute brother sees something he shouldn’t, the brothers are separated and the world as Jess knows it is shattered.

The title is taken from the closing lines of Thomas Wolfe’s You Can’t Go Home Again.

Asheboro library’s ‘Hands-On Science’ to feature wind indicators

Kids can learn about weather vanes and other wind gauges in “Hands-On Science: Wind Speed and Direction Indicators” at 3 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. Thursday, January 31, at the Asheboro Public Library.

All the materials for making a wind indicator to take home will be provided.

The event is free, and children in grades 2-6 are invited. Registration is required; call 318-6804 to sign up for one of the two sessions.

The library is located at 201 Worth Street in Asheboro.

Author Annette Dunlap to debut memoir at Asheboro library

Author Annette B. Dunlap will debut her memoir The Gambler’s Daughter: A Personal and Social History at 7 p.m. Thursday, February 7, at the Asheboro library.  

Her appearance, sponsored by the Friends of the Library, is free and the public is invited.

Her book chronicles her experiences growing up in Pittsburgh’s Squirrel Hill Jewish community with a father who was a compulsive gambler and a mother who was determined to hold her family, and her marriage, together.

Dunlap was born in Pittsburgh and moved to North Carolina in 1977. She has been a freelance journalist for over 30 years whose articles have appeared in various regional newspapers including The Courier-Tribune.

Her first book, Frank: The Story of Frances Folsom Cleveland, America’s Youngest First Lady, was published by SUNY Press/Excelsior Editions in 2009 and in 2011 received the Ella Dickey Literacy Award.